Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...collective that was created in 1965. It encompasses all styles from straight African rhythms to bebop to the avant-garde's specialty: grunts and wails and bizarre instrumental effects that were ignored during bebop's preoccupation with fluency and speed. A.A.C.M.'s alumni include two emerging jazz stars: Saxophonist Anthony Braxton, 33, and Pianist Muhal Richard Abrams, 47, its founder...
Most Americans have never heard the free sounds of progressive jazz. The reason is simple: major record companies tend to produce old reliables and lucrative fusion music; they are unwilling to promote the experimental edge. A few of the best progressive practitioners, among them Jarrett and Trumpeter Don Cherry, 41, record in Europe. One of the few outfits supporting this hard-to-absorb music is New York's nonprofit New Music Distribution Service. Says Drummer Beaver Harris, one of the artists who uses the service: "What the major record companies produce isn't always what's happening...
...avant-garde jazz is more accepted overseas than at home. Kahil El-Zabar, 25, percussionist and composer with A.A.C.M., recently played to bigger audiences in Rome than in Chicago. And when Rivers toured Europe, audiences numbered 10,000 to 15,000, compared with around 2,000 in America. Says...
...then, Europe has always been more generous to jazz; Americans have never quite forgiven jazz its bastard birth in the bordellos of New Orleans' Storyville. "Man, these cats know their stuff," Louis Armstrong once said admiringly of an audience in Geneva. Every year there seem to be more European jazz festivals...
Meanwhile, like Old Man River, mainstream jazz just keeps rolling along...